This seems easy:
https://www.icloud.com/photos/#0fAgE_CXY236UFBqNDQRshxVA
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 12:04 PM David Gregory <david.c.gregory@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I had occasion to visit the Rolls Royce Heritage Museum a few years ago
and got several up close shots of a Black Arrow stage. If anyone (Ben)
has suggestions on how to share them I’m happy to post the full res
versions.
On Oct 22, 2020, at 10:58 AM, Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
rocket is hanging in a museum. I went to see it last year. The lighting is
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Ben Brockert wrote:
The one upside of the abrupt cancellation is that the final complete
unfortunately terrible...
dimly-lit room. See attached view of the first and second stages, taken
Yeah, it's a pity they insisted on hanging it from the ceiling of a
about five years ago. (They also have a dummy third-stage motor and a
mockup of the Prospero satellite, but I didn't have quite the camera FOV to
get them all in with reasonable detail -- you can just see the start of the
third-stage nozzle at the top.) The view was much better back in the 1990s
when they had it down at floor level and reasonably lit, but that was
before I had a digital camera.
fifty years.
but it's nice to have a complete artifact that wasn't left outside for
what the first stage of the only orbital launch looks like now -- it was at
And speaking of outside for fifty years :-), see the second attached for
the Royal International Air Tattoo airshow last year.
electronics, as a flight test for them and a range/facilities pathfinder;
The Black Arrow is also notable for being one of the only rocket
programs that was correctly numbered: they started serials at zero.
Vanguard also had a number 0 (a Viking carrying some Vanguard
no actual Vanguard rocket stages involved). Although they wimped out --
they had a separate numbering sequence for allegedly-operational launchers,
after the initial test-vehicle sequence, and they started those at 1.
Have there been any others?
Henry
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